As you may have now heard, we are doing some special projects and presentations neighbourhood. Our Big Idea for this year is ‘My Place’, and one of the guiding questions we have is ‘What makes a place special to you?’. We are asking the students to choose a place that they have a special […]
We continued to look at descriptive language last week, using photos and soundscapes as stimuli to build shared descriptions of the features of a particular place. Students also drew and discussed how they connected to these places through their own experiences. After a shared reading of ‘Heart in a Bottle’ by Oliver Jeffers, we used
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YO, YO, YO! We love maths YO, YO, YO! We love maths, we love maths, we love maths, multiplication, addition, and subtraction, they give me great satisfaction! You can do maths anywhere, grab a pencil and some paper, when you do four maths sums, we can have some real fun! We love maths, we love
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I am a maths Rapper! In grade 4 maths we have a sheet and even if the work is hard, I will never cheat! My favourite part is subtraction follow close to learning fraction I hate when people are a big distraction it’s not close to my satisfaction I remember in grade 1 my teacher
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Each week, our prep home groups read one Big Book together. The book is read daily and students build their reading strategies, recognition of commonly used words and participate in letter study. Books read during weeks 2 – 4 Mrs Wishy Washy Commonly used words – in, the Letter study – W The jigaree Commonly
Monday Term 1 cover – Self portrait / Audience / Reading – ‘My many coloured days’ Numeracy / Paired and indépendant reading / Wellbeing Tuesday Provocations / Shared reading – Big book Specialist – Italian (Yellow and Red), Physical Education (Blue and Red), Art (Blue and Yellow) Buddy time Wednesday (Student free day) Scheduled online interviews (one on one)
Well done to all Preps for their wonderful participation in their first writing workshop on Friday. It takes bravery to begin writing and taking that plunge and having a go is vital. They are all on their own journey as writers and it is something that takes time and practice. Key points we focused on during the workshop Writing
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Here are some photos of the preppies exploring the provocations in each learning space. PERFORMANCE SPACE LEARNING COMMONS ART STUDIO
This afternoon, all 3/4 students were engaged in creating 2D shapes and 3D solids, by using a variety of mathematics, construction and craft materials. The mathematical understandings we are investigating are: Describing and drawing two-dimensional shapes Describing the features of three-dimensional objects Making models of three-dimensional objects Comparing and describing two dimensional shapes that result from
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Over the past three weeks, we have been setting up and engaging in our new maths workshops and our new maths daily 3 provocations. We have been having a blast! All students in 3/4 have their own maths SMART goal that they are working towards achieving. All students have explored how maths workshops sound, feel
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